Sport The Nationals Are Not Very Good at This Whole Rain Delay Thing

06:20 12 august 2017

06:20 12 august 2017 Source:
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This No- Rain delay is something i've never seen before!! — Ender Inciarte (@enderinciartem) July 7, 2017. The whole fiasco led to lots of jokes. I suggest the Nationals give away more free things — tickets, hats, more ice cream. The 12 best tweets about Austin Jackson's insane home run-robbing catch. 10hr ago.

More. But the indefensible thing about this situation is the communication and treatment of the fans. Forgetting for a moment that the rain that fell is the kind of It’s not the best look. So we’ll just have to wait and see if this rain delay has any consequences — from MLB, or from the Nationals ’ own fans.

The Nationals were supposed to play the Giants at 7:05 p.m. at Nationals Park on Friday night. A thunderstorm that had been forecasted postponed the start of the game, and it seems the Nats kept pretty much everyone in the dark from there on out—the game wasn't officially postponed until 9:48, nearly three hours after the initial game time.

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They're putting the tarp on the field at Nationals Park.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 11, 2017

Rain update: It is still raining. Occasionally, there is lightning. I'm not sure what we're doing here.

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More. But the indefensible thing about this situation is the communication and treatment of the fans. Forgetting for a moment that the rain that fell is the kind of It’s not the best look. So we’ll just have to wait and see if this rain delay has any consequences — from MLB, or from the Nationals ’ own fans.

The Washington Post's Dan Steinberg has more on-the-ground details about the rain delay that wasn't. Players, meanwhile, were just as in the dark about things as the fans. "No rain , and we just had to wait," said Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017

They're taking stuff out of dugouts. Looks like they will not play baseball tonight.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017

If you are at Nationals Park, please leave now so I can easily get a Lyft when they officially postpone this game.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017

The Giants are leaving the ballpark. The Nationals haven't announced the game has been called. Good times.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017

Giants found out they wouldn't be playing because someone in press box told them Nationals TV announcers left. Great work, Nationals.

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017

BREAKING! https://t.co/Oiq5KOkpL1

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) August 12, 2017

This is sort of unprofessional if true and it's weird, but what's weirder is that it's not the first time the Nationals have had a very weird rain delay.

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The Washington Nationals had a very bad day Thursday. It all started at exactly 6:42 pm when they sent Seems pretty standard, a rain delay notice, that happens, but what happened next is where this story turns south for the NL East leaders. The whole thing is worth a listen. Some other highlights

The Washington Nationals delayed the start of its game by approximately three hours because of the threat of rain . The problem is that many meteorologists and fans were looking at the weather radar and could clearly see that rainfall was well to the west of Washington, D.C. near the 7 pm start time.

Back on July 6, a Nationals-Braves game at Nationals Park was delayed for three hours. The only problem is, it didn't really rain—the Washington Post described the precipitation as happening only "barely," and reported that it didn't rain until hours into the delay.

I feel like this is not that hard. If it's raining and there's lightning in the area, you postpone the game. If it's not raining and there's no lightning in the area, you don't postpone the game. Am I missing something?

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The Washington Post's Dan Steinberg has more on-the-ground details about the rain delay that wasn't. Players, meanwhile, were just as in the dark about things as the fans. "No rain , and we just had to wait," said Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez.

The Washington Nationals had a very bad day Thursday. It all started at exactly 6:42 pm when they sent Seems pretty standard, a rain delay notice, that happens, but what happened next is where this story turns south for the NL East leaders. The whole thing is worth a listen. Some other highlights

The Washington Nationals delayed the start of its game by approximately three hours because of the threat of rain . The problem is that many meteorologists and fans were looking at the weather radar and could clearly see that rainfall was well to the west of Washington, D.C. near the 7 pm start time.

The Nationals delayed their series opener against the Atlanta Braves for 3 hours, 5 minutes despite negligible rain . “ Very upset…we fly back to KY first thing in the morning so left about 9:30. The Braves were even knocking the delay on Twitter!

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More nationals : harper to play in 2018 home run derby. The start of tonight's #Nats - #Braves game will be delayed . Well, fast forward three hours and five minutes and Gio Gonzalez finally took the mound at 10:10 p.m. with very little rain having ever been in sight.

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